Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) detained Trinamool MLAs Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, and Madan Mitra, and former minister and Kolkata’s former Mayor Shovan Chatterjee at its Kolkata workplace on Monday within the Narada bribery case.
Bengal ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee have been taken to the CBI workplace right here on Monday in reference to the Narada sting operation, officers stated.
Senior TMC chief and MLA Madan Mitra and former minister Sovan Chatterjee have been additionally dropped at Nizam Palace as a part of the probe, they stated.
A CBI crew together with central forces reached Hakim’s Chetla residence within the morning and took him to the probe company’s workplace, the officers stated.
“The CBI has arrested me in the Narada case. We will settle this matter in court,” Hakim, the state’s Transport and Housing Minister claimed.
According to sources, the CBI will current a cost sheet towards them earlier than a particular court docket.
The ministers are being interrogated by the CBI Officials. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has additionally reached the CBI workplace.
Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar had just lately sanctioned prosecution towards Hakim and different senior leaders of the TMC, together with Mitra and Mukherjee.
The Narada sting tapes, made public earlier than the 2016 meeting elections in Bengal, have been claimed to have been shot in 2014, and other people resembling TMC ministers, MPs and MLAs have been allegedly seen within the video taking bribes in lieu of favoured guarantees.
All 4 have been ministers within the earlier Mamata Banerjee authorities when the Narada bribery tapes have been launched in 2014.
While Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, and Madan Mitra have been re-elected as TMC MLAs within the just-concluded meeting elections, Sovan Chatterjee, who left the TMC to affix the BJP, has severed hyperlinks with each the camps.
On being requested in regards to the latest improvement, TMC has claimed that it’s a conspiracy by BJP to topple the Mamata Banerjee authorities in Bengal and has referred to as Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankar as ‘BJP’s Agent’.
TMC spokesperson Manojit Mondal has alleged that BJP desires to destabilize the state authorities calling it “political vendetta “
However, Senior BJP chief Dilip Ghosh has stated that CBI is doing its job.
